Final Jeopardy: Novels (9-17-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (9/17/2025) in the category “Novels” was:
In April 2025 the Empire State Building was lit up in green to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this novel’s publication
5x champ Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer orig. from San Diego, CA, has now won $134,516 so far. In Game 6, he takes on these 2 players: Max Miller, a college counselor from Astoria, NY; and Laura Mixter, a director of impact management & measurement from Chicago, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Words for City Folk – I Wrote That for Children! – Triples – Early Roles – Beastly Endings – Hawai’i as It Was
Max found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Words for City Folk” under the $400 clue with 9 clues left after it. He was in second place with $3,800, $1,000 less than Paolo’s lead. Max bet $3,800 but he drew a blank so he was WRONG.
A weegie is a person from this city on the River Clyde show
Paolo finished in the lead with $6,600. Laura was second with $2,200 and Max was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Our Crusty Earth – Professors – Unusual Words – The 1975… – The Fall – Bands Bigger in Britain
Max found the first Daily Double in “Unusual Words” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in last place with $400, $6,200 less than Paolo’s lead. Max bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Latin for “cloud” gives us this type of machine that gives asthma patients medicine in a liquid mist show
Laura got the last Daily Double in “The 1975” under the $2,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. She was in second place with $10,600, $400 less than Paolo’s lead. Laura bet $2,000, and she was RIGHT.
…success of Junko Tabei as the first woman to do this got her a medal from the King of Nepal show
Paolo finished in the lead with $16,600. Laura was second with $13,800 and Max was last with $6,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “THE GREAT GATSBY”?
April 10, 2025 marked the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel, “The Great Gatsby”, which is currently on stage as a musical at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. Here’s the CBS news report on the Empire State Building celebration.
According to Lit Charts, the color green in “The Great Gatsby” is mainly a symbol of the title character’s hope and dreams. It’s also can be a symbol of money and of envy.
Max bet $795 and finished with $7,195.
Laura bet $600 and finished with $14,400.
Paolo bet $11,001 and won the game with $27,601. Paolo’s 6-day total is $162,117.
A triple stumper from each round:
BEASTLY ENDINGS ($1000) 16 pieces of eight were once equal to one of these old gold coins
UNUSUAL WORDS ($1200) This 10-letter word usually refers to an ancient cave dweller but can now also describe any secluded person
Paolo Pasco, Max Miller, Laura Mixter
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “20th CENTURY PEOPLE”
In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted “a flawed process” & vacated a 1954 commission’s decision “in the matter of” this man show
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1/3 on DD, but got FJ. Funny thing was, the name of the book was evading me. I said “F Scoot Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, West Egg”, then, I got it!
Got both the bigger band in Britain, easily, but, I’m embarrassed to say I said “Molokai” for the Hawai’ian Island!
Shoot, I read Gatsby in college, saw two versions of the movie, and still didn’t make the connection. Decent FJ wager by Laura, locking out Max and banking on Paolo going big and missing Final.
Got the first DD, third one was a gimme.
The old gold coins were not difficult, neither was the NW Hawaiian island.